(Page 44) Frontispiece
Twinkleheels Tells Spot About Kicking. (Page 34) 32
Twinkleheels Talks to the Oxen. (Page 54) 56
Spot Tells Twinkleheels He is Slow. (Page 90) 88
THE TALE OF PONY TWINKLEHEELS
I
A BIG LITTLE PONY
When Johnnie Green sent him along the road at a trot, Twinkleheels' tiny
feet moved so fast that you could scarcely have told one from another.
Being a pony, and only half as big as a horse, he had to move his legs
twice as quickly as a horse did in order to travel at a horse's speed.
Twinkleheels' friends knew that he didn't care to be beaten by any
horse, no matter how long-legged.
"It's spirit, not size, that counts," Farmer Green often remarked as
he watched Twinkleheels tripping out of the yard, sometimes with
Johnnie on his back, sometimes drawing Johnnie in a little, red-wheeled
buggy.
Old dog Spot agreed with Farmer Green. When Twinkleheels first came to
live on the farm Spot had thought him something of a joke.
"Huh! This pony's nothing but a toy," he had told the farmyard folk.
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